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Xin Yan is Co-Founder of Sign, a company building sovereign blockchain infrastructure for governments. Sign provides a technology stack including a sovereign blockchain, onchain identity system, and digital asset distribution platform that enables nations to adopt blockchain at scale while maintaining regulatory control and compliance.
1Interview
2025First on the show
Oct 2025Latest appearance
32 minOn camera
31:56
Latest interview · Oct 17, 2025Sign builds sovereign blockchain infrastructure for nationsWatch the episode →
In their own words
“The good news is we're going to sign contract with the first country. They have almost 10 million people within two weeks.”
Key points from the latest interview
- Sign has distributed over 2 billion dollars in digital assets across 40 million unique addresses through its token distribution platform.
- Governments have historically resisted blockchain adoption due to ideological conflicts between hierarchical sovereign systems and decentralized permissionless networks.
- Sign's sovereign infrastructure approach addresses government concerns about money laundering and consumer protection while enabling blockchain benefits like faster settlement.
- Central bank digital currencies and tokenized assets represent the primary use case for government blockchain adoption rather than decentralized alternatives.
- Sign evolved from e-signature and token distribution products to focus on government-level blockchain integration as the crypto industry matured.